B.S. in Administration of Justice

Faculty

Dr. Roth holds a Ph.D. in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Tiffin University. His dissertation evaluated the factors that influence burglars’ target choices using surveys and home photographs to interview inmates in county jails. In addition to burglary, his research and teaching interests include criminological theory, research methods, and crime prevention.

While at IUP, he also served as a consultant in the Applied Research Lab and an Assistant Advisor in the Criminology Advising Center. Prior to graduate school, he worked for several years at a consulting firm in Maryland where he assisted with reviews of counterintelligence programs in FBI field offices.

McBride is an Instructor, the program coordinator and internship supervisor for the Administration of Justice program at Beaver campus as well as Penn State New Kensington and Penn State Shenango. He holds a master’s degree in sociology from Utah State University and a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a minor in Psychology from Weber State University.

McBride has 28 years of experience in criminal justice. He served as a Management and Training Analyst with the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in Washington DC. He is also a former Federal and State Parole/Probation Officer, worked on Death Row as a Prison Guard, and as an undercover drug officer for the state of Utah. For the last 9 years, he has been a consultant performing mediation between defense teams and victims in capital murder cases throughout the country.

Dr. Steven L. Brewer Jr., is an Assistant Professor in the Administration of Justice Program. He holds a B.A from Lock Haven University and a M.A and Ph.D from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Prior to working in the Administration of Justice program, he served as a research assistant at the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Research and Training Institute. He also worked as a research consultant at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Applied Research Lab. His consulting experience includes assisting faculty and students with various stages of the research process, including methodological design and survey development, statistical assessment, utilizing NVIVO, SPSS, and Qualtrics. He also consulted the FBI on a project regarding 9/11. His areas of interest include qualitative and quantitative analysis, research methods, and criminological theory. Dr. Brewer’s hobbies include cycling and outdoor activities. He currently resides in Butler, PA with his cat (Ferrari) and his wife Hannah, who is an Assistant Professor at Slippery Rock University.

Mari Pierce is an Assistant Professor in the Administration of Justice Department at Penn State Beaver. She joined the Department in 2010. Dr. Pierce received her Ph.D. in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, her Master of Criminal Justice from New Mexico State University and her B.A. in Sociology from Whitman College.

Dr. Pierce currently teaches CrimJ220 Courts and the Prosecution Process; CrimJ221 Issues in the American Criminal Justice System; CrimJ230 Corrections in America and CrimJ451 Race, Crime and Justice at the Beaver campus. In addition, Dr. Pierce offers distance video learning, 400-level courses, to students at the Penn State University Shenango and New Kensington campuses.

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